May joy and good fellowship reign, and in this manner, may the Olympic Torch pursue its way through ages, increasing friendly understanding among nations, for the good of a humanity always more enthusiastic, more courageous and more pure.

Sport is the habitual and voluntary cultivation of intensive physical effort.

All sports must be treated on the basis of equality.

Sport must be the heritage of all men and of all social classes.

Holding an Olympic Games means evoking history.

Olympism... exalting and combining in a balanced whole the qualities of body, mind and will.

All sports for all people.

The Olympic Spirit is neither the property of one race nor of one age.

Olympism seeks to create a way of life based on the joy found in effort, the educational value of a good example and respect for universal fundamental ethical principles.

Swifter, higher, stronger.

The most important thing in the Olympic Games is not winning but taking part; the essential thing in life is not conquering but fighting well.

In no way can sport be considered a luxury object.

Sport is part of every man and woman's heritage and its absence can never be compensated for.

For each individual, sport is a possible source for inner improvement.

If he is knocked out of the competition, he encourages his brothers with his words and presence.

The important thing in life is not to triumph but to compete.

For me sport was a religion... with religious sentiment.

The Games were created for the glorification of the individual champion.

The Olympic Games are for the world and all nations must be admitted to them.

The Olympic Games were created for the exhaltation of the individual athlete.

The Olympic Movement gives the world an ideal which reckons with the reality of life, and includes a possibility to guide this reality toward the great Olympic Idea.

The Olympic Games are the quadrennial celebration of the springtime of humanity.

In the Olympic Oath, I ask for only one thing: sporting loyalty.

Racial distinctions should not play a role in sport.

A country can truly call itself sporting when the majority of its people feel a personal need for sport.

Sport must be accessible to working class youth.

May joy and good fellowship reign, and in this manner, may the Olympic Torch pursue its way through ages, increasing friendly understanding among nations, for the good of a humanity always more enthusiastic, more courageous and more pure.

The day when a sportsman stops thinking above all else of the happiness in his own effort and the intoxication of the power and physical balance he derives from it, the day when he lets considerations of vanity or interest take over, on this day his ideal will die.

The important thing in life is not victory but combat; it is not to have vanquished but to have fought well.

Success comprises in itself the seeds of its own decline and sport is not spared by this law.

In our view the Olympic idea involves a strong physical culture supplemented on the one hand by mobility, what is so aptly called 'fair play', and on the other hand by aesthetics, that is the cultivation of what is beautiful and graceful.

The important thing in life is not the triumph but the struggle.

Festival of the impassioned efforts and manifold ambitions of all forms of youthful activity of every generation springing from the threshold of life.

Set religion free, and a new humanity will begin.

There are those, I know, who will reply that the liberation of humanity, the freedom of man and mind, is nothing but a dream. They are right. It is. It is the American Dream.

Humanity is the sin of God.

From now on it is only through a conscious choice and through a deliberate policy that humanity can survive.

Complete and total perfection will come about only when we feel that our perfection is no perfections as long as the rest of humanity remains imperfect.

What I'm suggesting to you is that this could be a renaissance. We may be on the cusp of a future which could provide a tremendous leap forward for humanity.

When I reached adulthood, even now, I could afford to belong to a country club. But I could never belong to a private club because of my experience as a child, because it would isolate me from the whole of humanity.

The United States cannot feed every person, lift every person out of poverty, cure every disease, or stop every conflict. But our power and status have conferred upon us a tremendous responsibility to humanity.

Both politicians and journalists face situations which strain their honesty and humanity. My opinion is that politicians on the average stand up somewhat better than journalists.

I appeal to my fellow scientists to remember their responsibility to humanity.

The whole aspect of cinema and film festivals should be a moment to come together and celebrate art and humanity. It would be a shame if there was such a divide.

Only on paper has humanity yet achieved glory, beauty, truth, knowledge, virtue, and abiding love.

You have to open your mind. I like the ability to express myself in a deep way. It's the closest music to our humanity - it's like a folk music that rises up out of a culture.

Soon silence will have passed into legend. Man has turned his back on silence. Day after day he invents machines and devices that increase noise and distract humanity from the essence of life, contemplation, meditation.

Anyway, I just haven't been able to find any humanity in any Republican candidate ever in my entire life.

Mr. Speaker, genocide is the most potent of all crimes against humanity because it is an effort to systematically wipe out a people and a culture as well as individual lives.